Winnipeg Jets trim training camp roster by five

The Winnipeg Jets reduced their “active” grooming campy roster to 34 players connected Sunday.

That full does not see injured defensemen Ville Heinola and Logan Stanley, who earlier successful the week underwent ankle and meniscus surgeries respectively; they are expected to beryllium sidelined for astatine slightest a period according to caput manager Scott Arniel.

Goalie Dominic DiVincentiis and forwards Daniel Torgersson and Parker Ford were assigned to the AHL Manitoba Moose who unfastened their grooming campy connected Monday astatine Hockey For All Centre successful Headingley.

Underage forwards Colby Barlow and Brayden Yager, who were some successful the lineup for Friday’s 8-5 nonaccomplishment to the Minnesota Wild successful St. Paul, person been loaned to their inferior teams.

Barlow remains spot of the OHL’s Owen Sound Attack portion Yager volition study to Moose Jaw aft helping pb the Warriors to their first-ever WHL rubric successful 2023-24.

Arniel said the exit interrogation gathering with some players was similar. The message: spell backmost to the inferior part and dominate; play good capable to gain the accidental to play for Team Canada astatine the 2025 U20 Men’s World Junior Tournament which volition beryllium played successful Ottawa. Yager wore the Maple Leaf for Canada successful the 2024 tourney and is expected to assistance signifier portion of the National Junior Team enactment radical this coming winter.

Arniel said this was much oregon little the archetypal “real” pro grooming campy for Barlow aft the Jets 2023 first-round draught prime was sidelined by COVID 12 months ago. “He missed retired each of past twelvemonth evidently with getting sick successful grooming camp, not getting a accidental to play successful accumulation games.”

Arniel says Barlow told him helium felt amended successful the 2nd crippled astatine Minnesota compared to the preseason opener versus the Wild six days earlier astatine Canada Life Centre. “The gait of the game, however small helium had the puck. Whether it’s playing the strategy oregon him trying to get to the spots offensively to get his looks, helium recognized there’s a full antithetic level.”

Barlow did summation immoderate pro acquisition this past April erstwhile helium joined the Moose pursuing Owen Sound’s first-round exit versus eventual Memorial Cup Champion Saginaw successful the OHL playoffs.  And Arniel wants the 6-1, 195-pound winger from Orillia, Ont., to instrumentality the lessons learned successful the American Hockey League, and astatine this grooming camp, and use them to what should beryllium his last play successful the inferior ranks.

“The hard portion is, erstwhile you spell backmost you instrumentality your ft disconnected the pedal and you benignant of relax. He needs to marque definite that each time is simply a learning time for him, it’s a maturation day,” explained Arniel. “Whether that’s successful the value country oregon whether that’s connected the ice. You don’t get caught retired determination for a infinitesimal and 20-, 30-second shifts and play astatine fractional speed. Try to support that mentality of 45-50-second shifts and you’re going arsenic hard arsenic you can. Try to larn arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable this coming play truthful erstwhile we spot him adjacent twelvemonth he’ll beryllium 1 twelvemonth older and much experienced.”

Arniel says helium was precise impressed with the campy Yager had aft coming implicit from Pittsburgh successful the Aug. 22 commercialized for Rutger McGroarty. The 19-year-old Saskatoon merchandise besides played successful the 2 accumulation games versus Minnesota and scored erstwhile successful the 8-5 nonaccomplishment Friday night.

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“Nice astonishment determination – not knowing thing astir the subordinate coming in,” admitted the Jets seat brag of the 6-0 and 170-pound halfway who scored 35 goals and added 60 assists for Moose Jaw successful 57 games during the regular play earlier adding 11-16-27 successful 20 playoff contests for the WHL Champion Warriors. “Great skillset, large changeable arsenic you saw the different night. Good connected faceoffs, heady kid who was ever asking questions of myself and the coaches astir playing without the puck.”

Arniel said Yager surely benefitted from the clip spent with Sidney Crosby past autumn astatine Penguins grooming campy – and shared that a akin script played retired implicit the past 10 days with Jets seasoned halfway Mark Scheifele.

“Those players are driven guys, top-end guys who enactment astatine their game. Yags was really complimentary of Scheif and the worldly that helium helped him with and he’s got potential.”

Sunday’s grooming campy cuts permission the Jets with an progressive roster of 4 goalies, 11 defensemen, and 19 forwards going into the last 2 preseason games versus Calgary: Wednesday successful Winnipeg and Friday successful the Foothills City.

Below is the extent chart, including the guardant lines and defence pairs from Sunday’s signifier astatine Hockey For All Centre.

Goalies: 

Connor Hellebuyck
Kappo Kahkonen
Eric Comrie
Thomas Milic

Defense:

Josh Morrissey-Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg-Neil Pionk
Elias Salomonsson-Colin Miller
Haydn Fleury-Dylan Coghlan
Dmitry Kuzmin-Tyrell Bauer
Simon Lundmark

Forward: 

Kyle Connor-Mark Scheifele-Gabriel Vilardi
Nikolaj Ehlers-Vlad Namestnikov-Cole Perfetti
Nino Niederreiter-Adam Lowry-Mason Appleton
Morgan Barron-Rasmus Kupari-Alex Iafallo
David Gustafsson-Dominic Toninato-Axel Jonsson Fjallby
Nikita Chibrikov-Brad Lambert-Jared Anderson Dolan
Mason Shaw